USN-4189-1: DPDK vulnerability

13 November 2019

DPDK could be made to consume resources if it received specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • dpdk - set of libraries for fast packet processing

Details

Jason Wang discovered that DPDK incorrectly handled certain messages. An
attacker in a malicious container could possibly use this issue to cause
DPDK to leak resources, resulting in a denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.04

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

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